FOI Request - Homelessness Applications

Request 101003842042

Each question is seeking a number for each financial year the latest of which would be 2024/25

1. How many homelessness applications have there been in the local authority for each year since 2018/19.  

2,  How many children would have been affected by those applications in each of the years.

3. How many homeless households were housed in temporary accommodation in each year referred to above.

4. How many children were housed in temporary accommodation in each year referred to above.

5. What was the cost of housing households in temporary accommodation in each year referred to above.

6. How many instances have there been where households requiring temporary accommodation have not been offered temporary accommodation in each of the years referred to above.

Response 15-09-2025 

1. Year     Number of applications
2024-25     513
2023-24     584
2022-23     562
2021-22     512
2020-21     455
2019-20     530
2018-19     574

2. Year     Number of Children
2024-25     180
2023-24     308
2022-23     262
2021-22     229
2020-21     200
2019-20     242
2018-19     289

3. Year     Number of Households in Temporary Accommodation
2024-25     384
2023-24     397
2022-23     442
2021-22     426
2020-21     405
2019-20     487
2018-19     446

4. Year     Number of children housed in Temporary Accommodation
2024-25     127
2023-24     172
2022-23     176
2021-22     196
2020-21     181
2019-20     235
2018-19     186

*This may or may not be their substantive home

5. The information requested is published and available on the Moray Council website and is therefore exempt under section 25 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, information otherwise accessible. For ease of reference please find a link to the web page here: http://www.moray.gov.uk/moray_standard/page_142737.html

6. None